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Lexi Schwenger

BA
Pronouns: she/her

Positions

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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Location

Office: Social Science619

Background

Educational Background

Bachelor of Arts Double Honours in History and English, University of New Brunswick, 2024

Biography

Lexi Schwenger is a graduate student in the Department of History at the University of Calgary. In 2024, she obtained a double honours in History and English at the University of New Brunswick, where she wrote her honours thesis on the Jack the Ripper victims and their representation in literature under the supervision of Dr. Cheryl Fury and Dr. Sarah Maier. She is currently studying female criminals in Nineteenth-century Britain under the supervision of Dr. Warren Elofson.

Research

Areas of Research

Nineteenth-Century England, Gender relations in Victorian England, Crime & Gender, Social Relationships, Female Criminality

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Awards

  • Dr. George Self Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2024
  • Belinda Balemans Memorial Prize in History and English, University of New Brunswick. 2024
  • Mary McKean Scholarship, University of New Brunswick. 2024
  • Ernest Allan Whitebone History Prize, University of New Brunswick. 2023